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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
- forthwall 2y agoI think markdown's success comes from it's open and simple standards. When things can be easily parsed and rendered, anyone can build tools that use it. When things are interoperable, the tools can change but the format lasts forever.
- ggm 2y agoPandoc is to me the single most useful visible Haskell outcome. The entire language would be justified to me by this polyglot format translator
- everybodyknows 2y agoTheir main product -- Windows and Mac platforms only: https://ia.net/writer https://ia.net/writer Can't seem to find screenshots. Anyone used it?
- cratermoon 2y agoI tried it out. I found I prefer my editor to be less visual, like vi or emacs. I write raw markdown, and occasionally look at a preview window. Structure is everything for me, even minimal styling distracts me.
- nylonstrung 2y agoGood stuff but criminal to not mention Obsidian Why would I buy a subscription to a markdown editor when Obsidian exists
- cratermoon 2y agoBecause you just want an editor and Obsidian is not an editor?